Has anyone taken their kids fruit picking recently?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lord. You people get groceries delivered and pick fruit in groups. What even,

It is hilarious. Add in white people making the backbreaking work of migrant workers into an adorable Instagramable family outing. Never ceases to make me laugh at the absurdity.

Are you seriously comparing a family out having a fun couple of hours leisurely picking fruit with the kids running around to the 15 hours a day a basically homeless migrant worker experiences. Talk about absurdity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lord. You people get groceries delivered and pick fruit in groups. What even,

It is hilarious. Add in white people making the backbreaking work of migrant workers into an adorable Instagramable family outing. Never ceases to make me laugh at the absurdity.

Are you seriously comparing a family out having a fun couple of hours leisurely picking fruit with the kids running around to the 15 hours a day a basically homeless migrant worker experiences. Talk about absurdity.

+1. Like...what? Yes, all the migrant workers pick berries for an hour with their kids and then go home and make a fun little dessert!

[Anonymous]

I went this weekend, and it was actually a good practice mask-wearing experience for my 8 and 3 year olds. (Though to be honest, it made clear that 3 y/o mask wearing isn't going to work...)

[Anonymous]

I went to Butler’s this week and it was great. We were allowed anywhere on the field, and everyone was respectful. We were asked to wear masks to enter and exit, but not to actually pick (since we stayed away from others). The fruit was delicious! We plan to go back when the blueberries and blackberries are ripe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wegmeyer farms in VA did a great job when we went strawberry picking. Reservations required, they assigned rows to spread everyone out, no weighing (one price for a bucket), staff in masks, big things of hand sanitizer at entrance.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Butler’s in MoCo is doing it well, as far as I’ve heard. Appointment windows and you’re well away from anyone else.

Slots go really quickly, though, so stay on it!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wegmeyer farms in VA did a great job when we went strawberry picking. Reservations required, they assigned rows to spread everyone out, no weighing (one price for a bucket), staff in masks, big things of hand sanitizer at entrance.

We did Wegmeyer yesterday and did not have a good experience. They give you strict instructions to only pick fully ripe strawberries and then they assigned us a row with very few ripe strawberries. After picking that whole row we asked for another and were given another similar row. After picking that one our bucket was still less than half full. After that the "patch boss" was really rude to us saying we weren't picking well enough and when I said there simply weren't enough ripe strawberries we were told "well its a pandemic what can we do?" Huh? What does that have to do with how many reservations they pre sold? He very angrily gave us a third row and told us no matter what we would NOT be given another row.

The ripe strawberries were tiny, about the size of a grape.

We will not be returning.

Maybe they were just trying to give you the authentic migrant farm labor experience.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wegmeyer farms was fantastic when we went on memorial day. We got 4 full buckets in less than an hour! I think we were assigned 2 rows and didn’t even finish them. The season is definitely winding down so PP’s experience sounds about right since it’s now nearing late season. The old man referred to sounds like the owner’s father (“the patch boss”). I just looked at their website and they did not have any reservations for today because they want to give the berries a chance to ripen, which means if you went yesterday PP you just picked a bad day.

PP here. They actually told me they are halfway through the season (week 3 of 6) our patch boss was probably 19 and sorely lacking in customer service skills. We were at the Hamilton ("home farm") location.

Sorry you were unlucky, we had a nice experience there a few weeks ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wegmeyer farms was fantastic when we went on memorial day. We got 4 full buckets in less than an hour! I think we were assigned 2 rows and didn’t even finish them. The season is definitely winding down so PP’s experience sounds about right since it’s now nearing late season. The old man referred to sounds like the owner’s father (“the patch boss”). I just looked at their website and they did not have any reservations for today because they want to give the berries a chance to ripen, which means if you went yesterday PP you just picked a bad day.

PP here. They actually told me they are halfway through the season (week 3 of 6) our patch boss was probably 19 and sorely lacking in customer service skills. We were at the Hamilton ("home farm") location.

Sorry you were unlucky, we had a nice experience there a few weeks ago.

We did too last week. There were plenty of big ripe berries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We went to butler last weekend. They kept capacity way down and there were very few people there. Plenty of strawberries and we were not restricted to a particular row. Everyone was very respectful of each other and stayed very distant and wore masks. You have to make reservations and decide ahead of time how many strawberries you are paying for.

Same for us - went to Butler's yesterday. Reservation slots go very quickly though.

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Has anyone examined whether the fruit can hold onto COVID if another person coughs onto the fruit? Fruit is a living thing just like a person and I would not be surprised if the virus could live many days or even weeks in or on the fruit.

[Anonymous]

It’s nice to do , but not in this area- too many ticks

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone examined whether the fruit can hold onto COVID if another person coughs onto the fruit? Fruit is a living thing just like a person and I would not be surprised if the virus could live many days or even weeks in or on the fruit.

Wtf? Fruit doesn't have lungs. It can't cough it back at you.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone examined whether the fruit can hold onto COVID if another person coughs onto the fruit? Fruit is a living thing just like a person and I would not be surprised if the virus could live many days or even weeks in or on the fruit.

Wtf? Fruit doesn't have lungs. It can't cough it back at you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lord. You people get groceries delivered and pick fruit in groups. What even,

It is hilarious. Add in white people making the backbreaking work of migrant workers into an adorable Instagramable family outing. Never ceases to make me laugh at the absurdity.

Are you seriously comparing a family out having a fun couple of hours leisurely picking fruit with the kids running around to the 15 hours a day a basically homeless migrant worker experiences. Talk about absurdity.

PP, don't worry about it. Add it to the list of things white people do, that the rest don't understand.